Birth Movies

This cinema-verite-style documentary interweaves the pregnancy and childbirth of a young woman with the lingering death of a cancer patient to...

At a summer-evening dance a young girl meets a man who tells her he is a doctor. They go off together, and after that she never sees him again. She...

The hallucinogenic and nightmarish results of one man's abuse of spray-paint and inhalable substances.

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the...

A short horror film about a large spider decoration come to life seemingly only to induce terror for one lonely, clumsy, and easily frightened girl.

An experimental documentation of Barbara Rosenthal's pregnancy and the birth of Ola Creston, as filmed by Ola's father.

Mary tries to find a way to escape her loneliness by conceiving a child.

Filmed largely in close-up, this documentary records a woman giving birth while her husband remains at her side. The camera concentrates on her face...

The director’s diary told in still images of a dramatic period in which he becomes first a father and then almost loses the love of his life...

When desperate times call for desperate measures, 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Officers are available to help with the complexities of childbirth...

Global pandemics are like prairie thunderstorms. Full of terror and havoc, they eventually pass. Bringing a new baby into the world can also feel...

What is birth? It is said that being born into this world is the beginning of suffering: dukkha.